# How to change the max length for direct messages via the flag button

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-max-length-for-direct-messages-via-the-flag-button/63888>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 3, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-max-length-for-direct-messages-via-the-flag-button/63888 "2017-06-03T18:03:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-max-length-for-direct-messages-via-the-flag-button/63888/11 "2018-07-31T00:49:30Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> This is a “turn my car into a truck” type of request

I don’t get this analogy at all. Could you explain? How does modifying the max number of characters in flag messages turn discourse into something else?

> [@sam](#):
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> It’s a bit of a can of worms cause next you want preview as well…

That’s a bit unfair. Nobody said anything about preview.

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